Senior DevOps Engineer – Remote (AWS EKS, GitOps)

Philippines (PHC1) Avid Philippines; Philippines; Remote; PHP 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Health & life insurance

Referral rewards

Generous leave

Job summary

Avid Philippines is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to automate testing, release, and deployment on Avid Content Core, a multi-tenant SaaS running on AWS EKS. As part of a team of senior engineers, you will operate with autonomy, influence architectural decisions, and mentor peers.

This role is based remotely in the Philippines with a 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM Philippine Standard Time schedule. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, strong Python/Go/Java scripting, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, closely related subject, or relevant experience.
• 5 or more years of experience designing large and complex cloud environments.
• Background in development, operations, and full-stack implementations.
• Experience programming in Python, Go, Java, or similar for scripting and provisioning.
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies.
• Proficient with AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Istio, ArgoCD.
• Experience with GitOps tooling for multi-tenant provisioning (Crossplane or similar).
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL and schema migration practices in microservices context.
• Familiarity with policy-based authorization (OPA) and service mesh security patterns.
• Problem-solving attitude and collaborative spirit.

Responsibilities

• Establish and employ GitOps-based CI/CD practices (ArgoCD, GitHub Actions).
• Implement CD patterns - blue-green/ccanary rollouts (Argo Rollouts).
• Identify manual processes to automate, especially multi-tenant provisioning and IaC.
• Provide last-level technical support as needed.
• Build tools to reduce errors and improve customer experience.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Guide teams in designing, building, testing, and deploying changes with per-tenant isolation.
• Consider IT infra, networking, security, identity, and observability when making changes.

Skills

GitOps

CI/CD

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

Argo Rollouts

Crossplane

PostgreSQL

OPA

Service Mesh

Python

Go

Java

EKS

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Job description

Avid Philippines is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to automate testing, release, and deployment on Avid Content Core, a multi-tenant SaaS running on AWS EKS. As part of a team of senior engineers, you will operate with autonomy, influence architectural decisions, and mentor peers.

This role is based remotely in the Philippines with a 2:00 PM - 11:00 PM Philippine Standard Time schedule. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in cloud architecture, strong Python/Go/Java scripting, and